{"id":1984,"date":"2010-01-22T19:59:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T02:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2010-01-22T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T05:33:00","slug":"1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/1\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Made-it.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1983\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Made-it.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Made-it.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Made-it-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remember 3 things from this movie: raw eggs, raw meat, and the above scene The mornings this week have been as painful as Rocky&#8217;s. Can&#8217;t. Get. Up. Mark. Couldn&#8217;t. Sleep. Again. Perseverance was the theme this week. There was no lofty goal but to get those hours of school accomplished. I stand atop my own 72 steps, knowing the children haven&#8217;t been neglected academically (or ahem, socially, my concerned critics). In celebration, I&#8217;ve been thinking the Rocky theme song because Friday was here and the end was in sight&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The end of talking about the Babylonian empire;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The end of talking about the Cuban Missile Crisis;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The end of Lessons 70 in Math 65 and Algebra I and subtraction without regrouping;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The end of high and low pressure systems, clouds, and wind currents; pollination and seed development;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The end of trying to stay ahead of voracious readers and preparing study questions;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The end of juggling the needs of a 3 year old with the needs of all the others.<\/p>\n<p>The books are put away in the school room; the birthday presents are purchased; anything I do now will just put me in the black for next week&#8217;s schoolwork. I hope your weekend is as bright with possibilities as ours looks tonight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember 3 things from this movie: raw eggs, raw meat, and the above scene The mornings this week have been as painful as Rocky&#8217;s. Can&#8217;t. Get. Up. Mark. Couldn&#8217;t. Sleep. Again. Perseverance was the theme this week. There was no lofty goal but to get those hours of school accomplished. I stand atop my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perseverance.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}